On Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:44:31 Steven Kauffmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I installed RTT and OCL on a xenomai target using the debian packages
> found on http://svn.fmtc.be/debian and
> http://zathras.tuxcnc.org/xenomai. Some items are not explained in the
> installation guide and took some time for me to figure it out. Maybe
> this can be added in the documentation.
>
> The installation guide I found under RTT documentation has revision
> 1.4.0 and is not explaining howto install with debian packages. The
> documentation I found here (revision 1.4.99) :
> http://people.mech.kuleuven.be/~psoetens/orocos/devel/rtt/latest/doc-xml/or
>ocos-installation.html contains the packages install instruction. Is this
> just a link that is not updated?

The instructions were missing in 1.4.0 and will be available in 1.4.1. Any
feedback on the 1.4.99 instructions is welcome.

>
> Good to know is that there are linux-image (patched with xenomai)
> packages available on http://zathras.tuxcnc.org/xenomai (maybe you
> already know) but this is not described.

I'll add it.

>
> Because OCL is not yet available for xenomai, I built it from source
> but I received the error that orocos-rtt-corba-xenomai was not found.
> Because I didn't know what the problem was, I placed several messages
> in the cmake files in order to control some variables. After some time
> I noticed that the package liborocos-rtt-xenomai-dev was not
> installed. Maybe there are other dependencies but I can't found any
> information about that.

Possibly readline and comedi-headers. For a quick solution, look at
debian/control for the line Build-Depends:
debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev, liborocos-rtt-corba-lxrt-dev ( >= 1.4 ),
libcomedi-dev, libpcan-dev, liborocos-rtt-corba-gnulinux-dev ( >= 1.4 ),
pkg-config, libncurses5-dev ( >= 5.0 ), libreadline5-dev ( >= 5.0 ),
comedi-headers ( >= 0.7.73-iasp9 )

Future versions will also require KDL, when the motion control components are
packaged as well.

I guess we urgently need an orocos-ocl-install manual...

Peter